People against freedom of speech and opinion more now.

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This whole cancel culture thing I lol about. This is nothing new. People have always been held accountable for what they said as long as I can remember. People would shun you, ignore you, not talk to you or look at you if you said something hurtful and rude. The only reason now why people get fired from their jobs now is because of the internet and cameras now and people uploading videos. This would have been very possible then if they had proof or if the work had a way of finding out without any of this new technology.

Also the term "political correctness" has become to mean being respectful and decent and not being a racist POS or a homophobic, etc. Back then it used to mean changing some terms. If this is what being PC means now, I see nothing wrong with it. PC has always been around. ret*d was the PC word for idiot and moron and imbecile. And Happy Holidays term, was around when my parents were kids. There is even a classic Christmas Song called "Happy Holidays."
When I was a kid, we still used the term criss cross apple sauce. I had no idea it was originally called Indian Style. And Spring Break, I never knew it was called Easter break, we called it Spring break when I was a kid. If all these were PC terms, then PC was around when I was a child.

I mean seriously, just be respectful and don't say anything racist or bigoted or anti semitis, etc. Also apologize and learn from it. This is just people wanting to be offensive and say anything they want and not face any social consequences. Well people have the freedom of speech to speak up and tell you how offensive and insulting you are and how racist it is for you to say it.

If a bunch of guys want to cancel me, they can go right ahead. I don't need misogynists anyway. I know other men won't cancel me. Works for me. If everyone got cancelled by the "right" people, no one would be talking about cancel culture.

So, did people 'back in the day' not have standards of decency that would cause them to no longer associate with certain people over their support of certain causes?

Plenty of right wingers tried to cancel Muhammad Ali back in the day because he was critical of America's war against Vietnam. Jane Fonda faced similar backlash and in some circles is still cancelled. That's only two examples, but the idea of facing ostracization over one's views isn't new in the slightest.

The only thing that has changed is that now one might also face it for views typical of the right, so now they belly ache that other people are defining what's political correct differently from what they would define.

The only people whom I personally know, and whom I know also want to put restrictions on Free Speech, are either Christian Evangelicals, Conspiracy Theorists, Islamic Fundamentalists, Pro-Trump Republicans, Schizophrenics, Tyrannical Bosses, or some combination thereof.

The common threads among all of them seem to include: (1) More interest in being believed than in telling the truth, (2) The desire to control other people's thoughts and actions, and (3) The need to feel important.